Effective scanning of regular photos ?

[maoneill]

I did try a search under "scan" and "scanner" and didn't see anything.

My Q : What is the best way to scan printed photos ? I have a Canon FB630U scanner which can scan at up to 1200dpi (or so it says)

Thanks ...

[Conk]

I did try a search under "scan" and "scanner" and didn't see anything.

My Q : What is the best way to scan printed photos ? I have a Canon FB630U scanner which can scan at up to 1200dpi (or so it says)

Thanks ...

300dpi should be suffice. Depends what you are going to do with the images afterwards.

[maoneill]

Thanks ..

I have a few photos of various subjects that I have taken over the years that I think could be improved if I could crop out some parts or improved the colours, etc. Some, I would definitely like bigger prints of but I'm not sure if that can be done or not (depends on how the scan come s out I suppose).

I'll get stuck in.

:)

[John_T]

Scan to TIFF or PSD, not JPEG if you are going to edit/manipulate afterwards. My Canon 9900F has excellent scratch and dust filters and color caste correction. If your scanner has these, I have gotten bettter results using them in the scan rather than afterwards in post processing.

Make sure your scanner platen is clean also on the underside. The polymer deposites that can build up on the underside of any scanner can affect colors and detail in strange ways not immediately noticed.

[scottbergerphoto]

Take a look at VueScan by Hamrick. It's a favorite of film scanners.
www.hamrick.com
Scott

[maoneill]

Thanks !

There is some superb information in the tutorials on that site. I scanned some photos at 1200dpi thinking "the more the better"; WRONG ! There isn't enough info in the print for scanning at that res.

[John_T]

Here's another one for you:

http://www.scantips.com/